The heats for the men's 200 metre freestyle race at the 2009 World Championships took place on the morning of 27 July and the final took place in the evening session of 28 July at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows: World record 1:42.96 Beijing, China 12 August 2008Championship record 1:43.86 Melbourne, Australia 27 March 2007 The following records were established during the competition:

DateRoundNameNationalityTimeRecord 27 July Semifinal 2 Paul Biedermann Germany 1:43.65 CR 28 July Final Paul Biedermann Germany 1:42.00 WR

Results

Heats Rank Name Nationality Time Heat Lane Notes 1 Paul Biedermann 1:45.30 14 4 2 Michael Phelps 1:45.60 15 4 3 Danila Izotov 1:45.86 14 3 NR 4 Jean Basson 1:45.88 15 3 5 Sebastiaan Verschuren 1:46.25 13 8 6 Sho Uchida 1:46.30 14 6 NR 7 Nikita Lobintsev 1:46.32 13 3 8 Park Tae-Hwan 1:46.53 13 4 9 Kenrick Monk 1:46.56 15 1 10 Patrick Murphy 1:46.61 13 5 11 Shaune Fraser 1:46.89 12 2 12 Andrew Hunter 1:46.96 13 2 13 Emiliano Brembilla 1:46.99 14 1 14 Dominik Meichtry 1:47.10 14 5 15 David Walters 1:47.15 15 5 16 Ross Davenport 1:47.21 15 6 17 Shogo Hihara 1:47.25 13 7 18 Nicolas Oliveira 1:47.55 13 6 19 Gianluca Maglia 1:47.64 14 7 20 Dominik Koll 1:47.83 13 1 21 Ahmed Mathlouthi 1:47.88 14 2 22 Ryan Harrison 1:47.94 11 3 NR 23 Blake Worsley 1:48.17 12 7 24 Brett Fraser 1:48.18 7 0 25 Péter Bernek 1:48.24 12 8 26 Colin Russell 1:48.25 15 7 27 Andrew Mcmillan 1:48.30 15 9 28 Daniele Tirabassi 1:48.51 10 2 NR 29 Gard Kvale 1:48.57 12 1 NR 30 Rodrigo Castro 1:48.62 14 8 31 Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or 1:48.63 15 8 32 Jon Raahauge Rud 1:48.69 12 9 33 Konrad Czerniak 1:48.73 15 0 34 Clemens Rapp 1:48.75 14 9 35 Douglas Lennox-Silva 1:48.81 6 2 NR 36 David Brandl 1:48.89 12 3 37 Andreas Zisimos 1:48.96 12 5 38 David Karasek 1:48.97 11 6 39 Pholien Systermans 1:49.03 11 5 40 Michael Jack 1:49.11 13 9 41 Djordje Markovic 1:49.21 12 6 42 Romāns Miloslavskis 1:49.34 12 4 43 Jan Venter 1:49.41 13 0 44 Cesar Faria 1:49.53 10 4 45 Raphaël Stacchiotti 1:49.61 11 2 NR 46 Květoslav Svoboda 1:49.74 11 4 47 Glenn Surgeloose 1:50.03 12 0 48 Crox Acuna 1:50.08 10 6 48 Zoltan Povazsay 1:50.08 14 0 50 Bae Joonmo 1:50.48 10 8 51 Gal Nevo 1:50.52 9 8 52 Martín Kutscher 1:50.69 11 9 53 Kemal Arda Gurdal 1:50.79 9 6 53 Jorge Maia 1:50.79 10 5 55 Shi Tengfei 1:50.88 10 1 56 Conor Leaney 1:50.98 10 0 57 Raúl Martínez Colomer 1:51.09 9 3 58 Xin Tong 1:51.18 11 8 59 Sebastian Jahnsen Madico 1:51.21 8 3 60 Vladimir Sidorkin 1:51.24 11 1 61 Mario Montoya 1:51.30 10 9 NR 62 Oleg Rabota 1:51.56 8 7 63 Branden Whitehurst Virgin Islands 1:51.59 6 6 NR 64 Lukasz Giminski 1:51.62 11 0 65 Aleksandar Nikolov 1:51.77 9 5 66 Taki M'rabet 1:51.88 9 2 67 Virdhawal Khade 1:52.01 11 7 68 Mateo de Angulo 1:52.37 9 9 69 Vadym Lepskyy 1:52.50 8 0 70 Irakli Revishvili 1:52.87 8 5 71 Lim Wen Hao Joshua 1:52.99 8 2 72 Saeid Maleka Ashtiani 1:53.32 6 3 73 Ensar Hajder 1:53.62 7 1 74 Mikael Koloyan 1:53.76 7 5 NR 75 Artur Dilman 1:53.88 9 1 76 Miguel Molina 1:54.02 10 3 77 Sebastian Arispe Silva 1:54.04 7 4 78 Petr Romashkin 1:54.09 9 7 79 Charles William Walker 1:54.72 7 6 80 Zane Jordan 1:54.87 7 9 81 Mohamed Farhoud 1:55.03 9 4 82 Emin Noshadi 1:55.52 5 6 83 Berrada Morad 1:55.69 8 1 84 José Alberto Montoya 1:55.77 6 7 85 Chien Jui-Ting 1:55.91 7 7 86 Sobitjon Amilov 1:56.25 7 3 87 Julio Galofre 1:56.40 10 7 88 Grant Beahan 1:56.52 7 2 89 Mohammed Madouh 1:56.64 6 4 90 Pan Kai-Wen 1:56.77 9 0 91 Gary Pineda 1:56.95 4 2 92 Cheah Mingzhe Marcus 1:57.01 8 6 93 Endi Babi 1:57.15 6 0 NR 94 Bojan Jovanov 1:57.48 1 0 95 Radhames Kalaf 1:57.51 6 8 96 Loai Abdulwahid Tashkandi 1:57.94 8 9 97 Diego Castillo 1:58.03 5 8 98 Jonathan Wong 1:58.27 4 1 99 Ashwin Menon 1:58.62 5 7 100 Oriol Cunat 1:58.74 5 3 101 Rashid Iunusov 1:58.86 8 8 102 Marzouq Alsalem 1:59.37 6 5 103 Allan Gabriel Gutierrez Castro 1:59.57 5 4 104 Neil Agius 1:59.61 4 3 105 Ahmed Jebrel 1:59.71 4 0 106 Kareem Ennab 1:59.80 4 4 107 Christopher Duenas 1:59.88 6 9 108 Vaughn Forsythe 1:59.94 5 1 109 Giorgi Mtvralashvili 2:00.03 5 2 110 Colin Bensadon 2:00.19 5 0 111 Sidni Hoxha 2:01.30 4 8 112 Aleksandr Slepchenko 2:01.41 6 1 113 Ignacio Ivan Quevedo Bubba 2:01.84 3 5 114 Omar Núñez 2:02.23 4 7 115 Fernando Medrano 2:02.45 3 4 116 Armando Esteban Zayas Claure 2:02.87 4 9 117 Edward Caruana Dingli 2:03.43 3 2 118 Heimanu Sichan 2:03.65 4 6 119 Esau Simpson 2:03.93 3 9 120 Luis Andres Martorell Name 2:04.06 3 7 121 Jean Marie Froget 2:05.47 3 0 122 Mathieu Marquet 2:06.44 3 1 123 Douglas Miller 2:06.47 3 8 124 Paul Elaisa 2:06.72 2 4 125 Saeed Al Jesmi 2:06.77 3 6 126 Vincent Perry 2:06.92 5 9 127 Sergey Pevnev 2:07.73 3 3 128 Ahmed Majeed Ali Tayawi 2:08.55 2 0 129 Al Khaduri Musallam 2:09.44 5 5 130 Shane Mangroo 2:09.87 2 6 131 Sergey Krovyakov 2:11.39 2 7 132 Henk Aloysius Lowe 2:11.56 2 8 133 Adam Viktora 2:12.13 2 1 134 Cooper Graf 2:12.17 2 3 135 Shin Kimura 2:13.02 2 2 136 Jesse Nilon 2:13.15 2 5 137 Fahad Alqooz 2:17.04 1 3 138 Ahmet Halliyev 2:17.22 1 4 139 Inayath Hassan 2:18.63 1 6 140 Ali Mohamed Raaidh 2:22.16 1 5 141 Christopher Symonds 2:32.84 1 2 — Alexander Dale Oen DNS 1 7 — Aleksandar Jeremic DNS 1 8 — Lin Kuan-Ting DNS 7 8 — Mads Glæsner DNS 15 2 — Obaid Al-Jasmi DQ 4 5 — Salvador Mallat Arcaya DQ 8 4

Semifinals Rank Name Nationality Time Heat Lane Notes 1 Paul Biedermann 1:43.65 2 4 CR, ER 2 Danila Izotov 1:45.09 2 5 NR 3 Michael Phelps 1:45.23 1 4 4 Nikita Lobintsev 1:45.31 2 6 5 Sho Uchida 1:45.45 1 3 NR 6 Sebastiaan Verschuren 1:45.69 2 3 7 Kenrick Monk 1:45.77 2 2 8 Jean Basson 1:45.82 1 5 AF 9 Dominik Meichtry 1:46.13 1 1 10 Shaune Fraser 1:46.44 2 7 11 Ross Davenport 1:46.46 2 8 NR 12 David Walters 1:46.61 1 1 13 Park Tae-Hwan 1:46.68 1 6 14 Patrick Murphy 1:46.70 1 2 15 Andrew Hunter 1:46.90 1 7 16 Shogo Hihara 1:47.36 1 8

Final Rank Name Nationality Time Lane Notes Paul Biedermann 1:42.00 4 Michael Phelps 1:43.22 3 Danila Izotov 1:43.90 5 NR 4 Sho Uchida 1:45.24 2 NR 5 Kenrick Monk 1:45.46 1 6 Jean Basson 1:45.67 8 AF 7 Sebastiaan Verschuren 1:46.05 7 8 Nikita Lobintsev 1:46.33 6

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